Ep. 873 - The Christophers
The Filmcast
The Filmcast
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
David, Devindra, and Jeff scale new heights in Apex, wade into mystery with Widow’s Bay, and work out some new material with season five of Hacks. Then they try to spot a forgery with The Christophers.
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Weekly Plugs
David - Dave Chen Travels: Sintra
Devindra - Engadget Podcast on Valve’s Steam Controller + TWIT 1082
Jeff - DLC 650 with Tim Schafer
Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:16:22)
David - Apex, Widow’s Bay, Undertone, Half Man
Devindra - Widow’s Bay, Half Man, Man on Fire (2026), NIPPON SANGOKU: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun
Jeff - Widow’s Bay, Hacks S5
Featured Review (~01:09:32)
The Christophers
SPOILERS (~01:25:28)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone and welcome to the film cast. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm David Jen and Stevenson. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the filmcast, a podcast about movies. |
| 0:23.5 | I'm David Jen, and Steven Soderberg is always experimenting with new technology, |
| 0:27.8 | like shooting on iPhones and videotapes, but I fear that with his latest film, |
| 0:32.0 | with his use of Michaela Cole technology, he may have finally become too powerful. |
| 0:36.1 | Joining me today is Devendrajur Hardewar. |
| 0:38.5 | We've seen him play Magneto. |
| 0:40.3 | We've seen him play Gandalf, but Ian McKellen is now in his final form playing reclusive |
| 0:45.7 | artist. |
| 0:47.0 | And Jeff Kanata. |
| 0:49.2 | You shall not pass my workoff as your own. |
| 0:57.1 | Those are, of course all vague and oblique references to the fact that today of the podcast, |
| 1:01.2 | we're going to be reviewing Steven Soderberg's latest film The Christopher's, |
| 1:04.6 | which is out in theaters in the United States right now. |
| 1:06.7 | You can find more episodes of this show at the Filmcast.com. |
| 1:08.7 | Email us at slash filmcast at gmail.com. |
| 1:12.5 | And before we get to what we've been watching and weekly plugs and then our review, |
| 1:16.4 | did want to do a couple of quick film news updates. |
| 1:20.0 | Last week on the podcast, we talked about Infinity Vision, |
| 1:24.4 | which is the new format, or I should said a couple weeks ago before the summer movie |
| 1:28.2 | wager, we talked about Infinity Vision. The new format that Disney is going to be releasing |
| 1:33.4 | Avengers Doomsday in. All the kids are buzzing about Infinity Vision. There's so much |
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